Topics Started by Tish
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Hey I need your help folks
by Iron Eagle inhey folks .
over the past couple of years , ive been viewing so called 'apostate' material from one source or another over the internet.
i guess i have been leading a 'double life' as the jw's love to put it ; whilst still going to the meetings i was still reading things about the history of the borganization .
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PROMISES with a CATCH!
by Blueblades in.
people are often willing to endure great sacrifices in order to obtain what they have been promised will be theirs in the future.the wt.society promises people that if they become faithful jw's.and endure to the very end,they will then live on a beautiful new earth.the pictures in the societies publications can be very attractive and eye-catching.but with every promise there is a catch.even if this promise were true ( and it is not),in order for you to have even a chance of obtaining entrance into this new earth you must sit through five boring meetings every week,spend at least ten hours every month in "field service"(that is going from door to door),be in complete submission to the vast control the society has over every part of your life, absent yourself from any family gatherings at holidays or birthdays, not be involved in competitive sports,hate everyone else in the world as being evil,and never question anything the society does---even if the society changes its doctrine to just the opposite of what it use to teach.worse yet ,the society never informs you that the new earth they promise is something which,to be realized,you must spend one thousand years in strenuously building it by manual labor.yes," promises with a catch",start out with an attractive bait attached to its hook.most people, including myself, do not realize or have not realized that, promises with a catch are very easy to get caught up with and very difficult to get out of.do you find this to be true?has it happened to you?for most on this board i know it has.i want to thank all of you for helping me and my own to come out from under the societies "promises with a catch".
blueblades
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Update on my little sister
by mamashel infor those of you who were so helpful in the hard time we were going through in my sister in laws case of abuse, i have some really good news.. she is 14 yrs old and her mother is a jw, totally active witness, her mother married the girls father after he served only 14 yrs of a 25 to life sentence for manslaughter.
he was released because the prison closed down and the others are overcrowded.
the mother married him, and after only 3 months of being out he started physically abusing the daughter(my hubby's sister).
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I'm 40 today----YIKES!!!
by BoozeRunner in.
well, here i am....the big 40!!!
hey, this aint so bad.. boozy
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Awake! Photographer "throws" zookee...
by Rado Vleugel ina zookeeper was serious hurt after an
awake!
photographer asked him to get in the cage with the lion for a picture.
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Today I had been DA
by Ginosko infirst of all, sorry for my bad english i'm from peru south america.
there's a lot to tell but i'm going in this time to be brief, because i'm very busy.. i had been an elder for almost 8 years and a jh for more than 22 years.. i'm a searcher of the truth from the 10 years old.
i grow as a catholic and got baptized as a jh at the age of 21.. in october of 2001 a jw friend ask me about the un&wt and bulgarian affair.
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What can a mother do??
by Tish ini have just had a conversation with my son who is 8 years old and don't know what to do.
i'll start from the beginning so you understand.. as some may know my hubbie left me when i was still a witness for not believing the truth and also went off with another woman.
i then after a few months met a man i fell in love with instantly.
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Money, Money
by drawcad_1 ini have noticed that in the last few months the issue of giving more donations, because the wachtower needs it has become more popular.
the convention that we went to this summer had three references to the poor lady who gave all that she had to give.
last night we had a very boring talk about how little we give as compared to how much we recieve from the tower.
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hello to warrington and falkirk
by ena inhello to all... i would like to hear from any ex jw from warrington where i lived until i was 13 then moved to falkirk scotland and would love to hear from anyone else who remembers me....god bless ena marsh / young [email protected]
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Is 40 too old for a tattoo????
by mamashel inok, as you know, i am a wife, mother of 6 and almost 40 years old.
i have had this urge to get a tattoo for about 3 years now.
shelley